CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF THE HOGARTH PRESS

This Incredible Need to Create: Letterpress Salon with Ted Ollier* “Creating is the true human activity” In her This Incredible Need to Believe (2009) Julia Kristeva argues that human life is shaped by an indomitable desire to believe, which is almost an “inexorable push”. Reflecting on the function of letterpress printing workshops at a time … More This Incredible Need to Create: Letterpress Salon with Ted Ollier

Buying a small hand-press to publish freely was one of the three birthday resolutions Leonard and Virginia Woolf made on Virginia’s 33rd birthday; thus, “A Press of One’s Own” was meant to be, above all, a birthday celebration. We enjoyed a festive and stimulating five-hour focus on the Hogarth Press and its legacy. Prior … More Hogarth Exhibition and Seminar / May 10th 2017

We finally completed the typesetting and printing of the last paragraph of Virginia Woolf’s “The Mark on the Wall”, from the first Hogarth book: Two Stories, 1917. Pressmaster Ted Ollier led us safely through the mysteries (and the profoundly non-mysterious hard labor) of printing. We found out that sorting the type back in the case is no … More Letterpress Workshop II / May 10th 2017, Bow&Arrow Press

In this workshop at Bow&Arrow under the guidance of pressmaster Ted Ollier, we started to typeset the last part of Virginia Woolf’s “The Mark on the Wall”, published by the Hogarth Press in 1917. We felt the immense efforts, but also the great joy of typesetting and printing! To be continued in the upcoming workshop, … More Letterpress Workshop I / May 3rd 2017, Bow&Arrow Press